4

Bernard Snow (II) 71
John Sylvester Perry 75
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 70
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 76
Lawson Green Wilson 80

3

William Nephi Lowe 58
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 48
Charles Eben Snow 43
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 46
Martin Peterson 62
Elisha Peck Jr. 56
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 51

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 24
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 21
Harry Chester Peterson 25
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 25

General

Population: 2.03 Billion*

• Entertainment: Television first broadcast
  First talking picture
  Writers include Willa Cather, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse (Steppenwolf), Franz Kafka (posthumously), Sinclair Lewis, Marcel Proust (posthumously), Upton Sinclair, Virginia Woolf, WB Yeats, John Dewey, Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell
  Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  ilms include The Jazz Singer (Jolson – first talkie), Flesh and the Devil (Garbo), King of Kings (De Mille)
  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science founded
  Music includes Aaron Copland, George Gershwin (Funny Face), Arthur Honegger, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II (Show Boat), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (A Connecticut Yankee), Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Harry Tierney, Kurt Weill, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
  Popular songs include Ol' Man River, My Heart Stood Still, My Blue Heaven
  Art includes Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoschka, Le Corbusier (architect), Henri Matisse, Rex Whistler (frescoes)
  Slow fox trot becomes fashionable dance
  Popular musicians include Nick Lucas (4-leaf clover), Ben Bernie (Ain't She Sweet?), Gene Austin (My Blue Heaven), Whispering Jack Smith
  Woolf's "To The Lighthouse"
• Medicine: "Iron Lung" developed by Drinker and Shah
  George Whipple conducts experiments on pernicious anemia and tuberculosis
• Music: Alois Haba develops theory of quarter-tone harmony
  Lev Theremin invents earliest electronic musical instrument
• Politics: Gottfried Feder publishes article on Hitler's Nazi Party
• Science: Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle" proposed
  W Heitler researches wave mechanics of valence
  Thomas H Morgan writes about embryology
  I Pavlov writes about conditioned responses
  Georges Lemaitre proposes Big Bang
  Nobel Prize for Medicine Wagner von Jauregg (AUS) for treatment of dementia paralytica with malaria inoculation
• Sports: Johnny Weissmuller swims 100 yards in 51 seconds
  Alexander Alekhine becomes world chess champion
• Technology: Albert W Hall improves fluorescent lamps
  Siegfried Junjhans perfects process for continuous casting of non-ferrous metal
  Philo Farnsworth transmits first all-electronic tv signal
• Travel: First trans-Atlantic flight by Lindbergh in "Spirit of St. Louis"
  15 millionth Model "T" prodouced
• Deaths: Romanian statesman Ion Bratianu, Carlotta former Empress of Mexico, Irish nationalist John Dillon, Ferdinand I King of Romania, Soviet politician Leonid B Krassin, English statesman and Viceroy of India 5th Marquis of Lansdowne, Irish politician Kevin O'Higgins assassinated, Russian czarist Sergei Sazonov, Egyptian statesman Zaghlul Pasha, First President of Latvia Janis Cakste, SWE chemist Svante Arrhenius, American inventor Hudson Maxim, Isadora Duncan by scarf, Welsh racing driver J.G. Parry-Thomas decapitated by drive chain, Lizzie Borden, English physiologist Ernest H Starling, Sir Harry H Johnston British explorer of Mt. Kilamanjaro, American feminist Victoria Woodhull, Italian statesman Luigi Luzzatti, Chinese statesman Sun Yat-sen

Africa

Americas

• Canada: First use of crop dusters

Asia

• China: Nationalist government established under Jiang Jieshi
  Chinese Civil War to 1937
  200,000 die in 7.9 quake Kuomintang leader Chang Kai-shek sets up government at Nanjing (Nanking) and purges Communists from it
  Quake in Kansu China kills 100,000
• Indonesia: Ahmed Sukarno sets up Nationalist Party
• Japan: Japan's first subway opens
  Economic depression hits
  7.6 quake

Europe

• Austria: Socialists riot in Vienna – general strike takes place following acquittal of Nazis for political murder
• Czechoslovakia: Masaryk reelected President
• France: Josephine Baker becomes star in Paris
• Germany: Dramatist Bertolt Brecht produces The Threepenny Opera
  Inter-Allied military control of Germany ends
  "Black Friday" in Germany as the economic system completely collapses
• Great Britain: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland renamed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland because of 1922 separation where 26/32 counties leave union
  CK Ogden founds London Orthological Institute
  BBCorporation takes over from BBCompany
  Vickers-Armstrong Ltd. To build machines and ships formed in London
  White City Grounds in London taken over by Greyhound Racing Association
  Industrial Health and Safety Centre opens in London
• Norway: Sonja Henia (Henning) becomes Norwegian ice-skating champion
• Romania: Romania begins supporting eugenic sterilization
• Soviet Union: First scientific expedition to Tunguska Siberia to explore 1908 explosion
  Trotsky expelled from Communist Party
  First Expo for space flights in Moscow
• Switzerland: Economic conference in Geneva attended by 52 nations

Middle East

Pacific

• Australia: Parliament House in Canberra opened
  Federal capital transferred from Melbourne to Canberra

President:

Pres: Calvin Coolidge

General

• Business:
• Crime: Sacco and Vanzetti executed
• Entertainment: "The Academy" of motion pictures created
  First full length talking picture The Jazz Singer released
• Politics: McNary-Haugen Bill vetoed
  FB Kellog (Sec of State) suggests pact for renunciation of war
• Sports: abe Ruth hits 60th home run
  Jockey Johnny Longden begins career
• Transportation: Lindbergh crosses Atlantic

East

• General: Holland Tunnel opens linking New York and New Jersey
• Massachusetts: Death of Lizzie Borden of Fall River
• New York: Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray convicted of murder of Albert Snyder – her husband – electrocuted next year at Sing Sing
• Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh gasometer explosion of 5 million cubic feet of natural gas kills 28

Midwest

• General: Major flooding of Mississippi River
  Series of 36 tornadoes in Missouri and surrounding states kill 142
• Illinois: Cairo flood
  Harlem Globetrotters play first game in Hinckley
• Missouri: Tornadoes at Poplar Bluff
  St. Louis tornado kills 85 in 5 minutes

South

• General: Great flood disaster in Lower MS valley
• Louisiana: 15 inches of rain in one day (Apr 15) and lightning knocks out pumps leading to 4' of water
  Flooding of southern Louisiana due to high water in Mississippi River – displacement of most poor blacks
• Texas: Tornado

West and Pacific

• General: Great Moffat Tunnel through Rocky Mountains opened
• California: Quake registers 7.1
  Deepest well in the world (8000 ft.)

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 644,745

Temples: 7

7. Mesa Arizona

Other

• 1000th congregation
• Smoot begins to push for Hoover's presidential bid